Parliament may be failing to come to a consensus on a Brexit agreement, but Fiona has taken the opportunity this week to speak up for low-income families, who face extraordinarily steep tax rates when they seek to come off benefits and go into work.

"Meeting the remarkable Bob Fu of China Aid this week, hearing his report of increased persecution in China - considerably worsened since we last met a year ago. His story can be read in his book God’s Double Agent."